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Risk of Infection Following Reverse Shoulder Arthroplasty After Failed Rotator Cuff Repair: A Retrospective Review
2025-10-02
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<title>Abstract</title> <p><bold>Introduction </bold>Rotator cuff repair (RCR) is a treatment option for rotator cuff tear, but the failure rate is 11-57%, requiring reverse shoulder arthroplasty (RSA). Due to its success, indications for RSA have expanded to include patients who failed RCR without significant arthritis. Periprosthetic joint infection (PJI) rate after RSA (with prior RCR or not) is 2.4% and unexp...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 399713a5-acb0-5e01-9438-cb47d251e054
- DOI
- 10.21203/rs.3.rs-7551849/v1
